Jamaica's Alia Atkinson has become the first elected chair of the International Swimming Federation's (FINA) Athletes' Committee here, with Russian diver Maria Polyakova also voted onto the panel.

Australia's Jessica Hansen, Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini, Uganda's Jamila Nsibambi Lunkuse, Matthew Sates of South

Africa and Trinidad and Tobago's Dylan Carter.The second diving representative elected was Polyakova

Members of the Athletes' Committee are due to serve terms running until 2026.It was previously chaired by South

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) is set to host a Sport for Development

Ollie Dudfield, associate director Olympism 365; former South African athlete and SASCOC Honorary President

Johannesburg ©Getty Images"We understand the importance of high-performance sport and the delivery of Team South

Africa, but there is a great need for us to use the power of sport more effectively to benefit our communities

World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour leaders Carissa Moore and Filipe Toledo tasted victory at the latest event in Saquarema in Brazil, each extending their advantage atop the standings and securing a place in the end-of-season finals.

injury.Brazil's Gabriel Medina, the reigning WSL champion, made an elimination-round exit.Jeffreys Bay in South

Africa is due to host the next WSL Championship Tour leg from July 12.

Romania's place at next year's Rugby World Cup in France has been confirmed after a Spanish Rugby Federation (FER) appeal against a points deduction for fielding an ineligible player was rejected.

Pool B alongside Ireland, Scotland, a qualifier from the Asia-Pacific region and defending champions South

Africa.

The new Board at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is gearing up to bring "positive change" to the sport, according to the governing body’s new President, Mohammed Jalood.

the United States, Karoliina Lundahl of Finland, Doris Marrero of Venezuela, Gardencia du Plooy of South

Africa and Yassiny Esquivel of Costa Rica.We congratulate the new IWF President, Mohammed Hasan Jalood

British television presenter Alison Hammond is set to be the "voice of our venues" at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

across the 280 events in 20 sports.Birmingham was announced as host in December 2017 after Durban in South

Africa was forced to withdraw due to financial constraints.As a result, it is set to be the third English

Belarusian deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko feels that the international sporting community's sanctions on Russia and his country in response to the invasion of Ukraine have been imposed to get rid of strong opponents.

invite athletes from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South

Africa), the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and other friendly states to the competitions held

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan while Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South

Africa make up BRICS.The SCO boasts eight member states in China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan

There were angry scenes at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) elections in Tirana today before calm was restored and Mohamed Jaloud was declared the new President of the sport's governing body.

Alharbi of Saudi Arabia, Fathi Masmoudi of Tunisia, Yassiny Esquivel of Costa Rica, Gardencia Du Plooy of South

Africa and Wen Hsin (Meco) Chang of Taiwan.Al-Mana is President of the Asian Weightlifting Federation

The 73rd edition of the FIFA Congress, where a Presidential election is due to take place, has been scheduled for Kigali in Rwanda on March 16 next year.

re-election at the Congress in Paris in 2019.Infantino has enjoyed particularly strong support from Africa

he made suggesting the proposal could help prevent African migrants from finding "death in the sea".South

Chun In-gee has a record-equalling five-stroke lead after one brilliant round of the Women's Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) Championship at Maryland's Congressional Country Club.

The South Korean at one point made seven birdies in eight holes to race into a lead which ties the biggest

with one birdie and a hole-in-one eagle on the second hole.American Jennifer Chang and Paula Reto from South

Africa are six shots off the lead in a tie for fourth place.Just 14 players finished the first round

champion Kim Sei-young, especially as it was followed by two bogeys on the next three holes, but the South

In a month from now, the Queen's Baton is set to arrive as Birmingham puts finishing touches to preparations for the biggest sporting event ever held in the city.

widespread boycott in Edinburgh, as a result of the British Government’s policy on sporting contact with South

Africa in the apartheid era.In 1991, Sheffield staged the Summer Universiade which lost money and had

anticipated from Adelaide and Johannesburg, but by the time the 1994 Games took place in Canada, the South

The question has arisen whether we would be ready for 2002," admitted South Africa Commonwealth Games

with a disability (EAD) attracted 20 competitors to take part in five different sports.In the pool, South

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has asked for Indian help in promoting cricket in Russia as part of "bilateral sports action plan". 

expected to hold discussions with sports representatives of Brazil, the People's Republic of China and South

Africa, who comprise the "BRICS" group of emerging economies alongside India and Russia.

Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have qualified for the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Under-23 Baseball World Cup after advancing to the semi-finals of the Pan American Under-23 Baseball Championship.

globe's strongest nations.World number one Japan, world number two Chinese Taipei and world number three South

Korea all feature alongside China.South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany and Australia are also set

Fifty years ago this week, Australian Bob Massie made his Test debut at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.

the West Indies, his status in the Caribbean had been marred by his decision to join a rebel tour of South

Africa in the 1980s.

This was when a sporting boycott was still in force because of the South African Government's apartheid

Countries from four continents have submitted bids to the International Hockey Federation (FIH) to host World Cups in 2026.

apply to host the men's event, the women's event or both of the flagship competitions at once.South Africa

cities to be confirmed.Germany has also entered the race, again without a host city yet chosen, while South

Africa has put forward Potchefstroom.Australia has submitted a bid for the Women's World Cup, which

it would hold in either Melbourne/Geelong, Perth, Sydney or Brisbane/Gold Coast.The South Africans have

again bid with Potchefstroom, while Uruguay has also bid with a yet to be confirmed city.South Africa